As I circled our yard taking pictures of the snowy morning several days ago, I searched for light. Because the sun rises behind the hill behind our house, it shines on the higher elevations first, such as these hills on the…
Just like last year, we are having a cold January. Still, we don’t usually get a lot of snow on our Jackson County hills. When we do, it’s very pretty. Here’s a picture from a few winters ago to prove it.…
We had visitors today. A couple dozen sandhill cranes stopped by the field across the road. After alerting everyone in the office, I grabbed my camera and walked out into the cold morning. Sandhill squawks filled the air. I looked up…
In the early 1990s, while teaching in the first and second grade Sunday School class, I thought about the fact that we never seemed to spend enough time teaching about Creation, so I decided to devote the next six months to that subject. I made…
Early yesterday morning around 5:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time, God moved the earth and the sun and the moon into just the right position for a total lunar eclipse. As the sun moved behind the earth, sunlight beamed around it. As that…
Dislike of change starts early in life. One of a child’s first lessons about self control comes when he is playing happily and Mama and Daddy say it is time to do something else. Sometimes that “something else” that Mama and Daddy have in…
